A grocery store
Messrs. Is the number one mattress. Name of an ancient grocery store.
The employees of this organization get not only salary but also share of profit. Go on a trip abroad just like the owner. Once you become the owner of the organization and stand on your own feet. This shop-business started about 200 years ago. That institution is still there in Saheb Bazar of Rajshahi. Running in the same vein.
Accommodation is available for employees. Has its own football and cricket team. After practicing in the morning, the employees came and opened the shop. Numerous employees of this organization have learned business and formed their own organization. He has become self-sufficient by buying land. The eldest of the current heirs of the organization is Mosharraf Hossain Akhunji, a linguist from Rajshahi. He is 6 years old. With his hands, at least 30 employees have become owners. About 40 more employees are currently working with the dream of becoming an owner.
Asked about this ancient and exceptional business, fiction writer Hasan Azizul Haque said, "We have heard that Mosharraf Hossain Akhunji started a language movement in Rajshahi. He is also good as a human being. Their business is the number one traditional mattress company. I don't know how old it is. But as long as I have been in Rajshahi, I have been watching. '
Musharraf Hossain said the employees learn the business here. Then stand on your own two feet. There are annual pleasure trips for employees. All the employees were taken to Rabindranath's Kuthibari in one year, Swapnapuri in Dinajpur in another year, different world in Rangpur in another year, Mahasthangarh in Bogra in another year and Rajbari in Natore in another year.
Accommodation is available for the employees on the second floor of the shop. There are televisions and fans. Employees get the opportunity to stay and eat there for free. Feasts are arranged for them on different national days. There are two chefs for cooking. Every morning there is pulses-vegetables-rice, in the afternoon there is fish-pulses-rice, at night there is small fish-rice. Meat is served two days a week at noon.
The employees of the organization have formed their own football and cricket teams. He also won trophies by participating in football and cricket competitions with the market association. Their day-long arrangements are held on the banks of the Padma in the holy month of Boishakh. Sports and entertainment. They also get handouts for Friday holidays.
The name of the institution was initially ‘Mattress Number One’, later the word Messrs. Was added. Basically it is a grocery store. However, they are distributors (dealers) of five or six more companies. After graduation, Mosharraf Hossain, the head of the institution, joined the Board of Education as a section officer. Later he quit his job and sat on the 'number one mattress'. He sat in his house and talked to this representative. He said that his father's grandfather Yasin Mia and his father's grandfather started this business together.
Recently I went to the number one mattress and talked to the employees. Even though it is a holiday, they keep the shop open for some time in the morning. Abu Zafar (56) is currently the senior employee of the shop. His home is in Kishoreganj. Not only him, most of the employees of the shop live in Kishoreganj. The reason was known, the founder of the shop is in Kishoreganj. Abu Jafar has been working here for 31 years. Asked if he is the manager, he said, "Actually, no one has any post here." Employees are given important responsibilities as skills increase. Here the employees are paid from 1 thousand to 25 thousand rupees. In all, 40 employees are currently working. It was heard from their mouths that this grocery store is not just a business. It is a factory to build a skilled manpower. Abu Jafar said that one of the owners was Abu Saeed Selim. He did not look for a job after finishing his studies in economics from Rajshahi University. Come and sit at number one speed. He died two years ago.
As he was talking, an old man came down the stairs, showed him and the employees of the shop all said together, 'Look, he is our "food minister." Kitab Ali has been here for 36 years. He bought the land with the profit of the organization. He married the girls. Despite his age, he did not leave the store.
Asked on what basis profits are made, Abu Jafar said those whose minimum wage is one year, their savings are considered business investments. From that the profit at the end of the year is calculated.
Ferdous Sikder, a businessman from Kishoreganj, has run a similar shop at RDA Market in Rajshahi city two years ago after working for this company. Going to his shop, it is seen that he is also doing a great business. Anisuzzaman (25) has taken capital from here and set up shop in Kishoreganj. When contacted on his mobile phone, he also admitted to working on the number one mattress.
How's the shop?
The sales center of ‘Mercedes Number One Mattress’ is located on the right side of the entrance of RDA Market in the heart of Rajshahi city. Open on both sides of the sales center. It is 60 feet long and 30 feet wide. Behind it is the warehouse cum office. All the groceries and manihari are sold in this shop. They have dealerships at Nestle Bangladesh, Bashundhara (Tissue, Flour, Flour, Suji, Paper and Book) and James Finlay PLC. Employees work in shifts. Employees deliver the goods to the wholesale buyers in 12 vans.
Asked about the institution, Moniruzzaman, president of the Rajshahi Industries and Merchants Association, said it is an ancient and traditional institution in Rajshahi. He said he was going to be 52 years old. He has been looking at this shop in the same way since he came to his senses. The quality of their products is good, so the sales are also good.